o follow anders fogh rasmussen twitter at anders fogh on twitter.ppreciate your time on "washington journal." >> thank you. great pleasure. do it for the program today, we'll see you back here tomorrow morning, 7 a.m. eastern, 4 a.m. pacific for another "washington journal." until then, have a great monday. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] here's a look at some of our live programming on the c-span networks. in half an hour or so we will bring you a discussion

o follow anders fogh rasmussen twitter at anders fogh on twitter. appreciate your time on "washington journal." >> thank you. great pleasure. do it for the program today, we'll see you back here tomorrow morning, 7 a.m. eastern, 4 a.m. pacific for another "washington journal." until then, have a great monday. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] here's a look at some of our live programming on the c-span networks. in half an hour or so we will onng you a discussion hiv-aids research and funding. then it is white house spokesman josh earnest speaking to reporters. we expect him to speak about the death of fidel castro among recent topics. coming up later, a look at u.s. alliances and leadership on the global stage. that will be live at 2 p.m. eastern here on c-span. an event on domestic security in the age of isis. -- can watch that live looking at the lobby of trump tower. many potential cabinet

nato relations with secretary general anders fogh rasmussen. we'll take your phone calls, tweetses and facebook comments. washington journal is live every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> we're asking students to participate in the documentary community by telling us what is the most urgent issue for donald trump and issues that congress mustards in 2017. it's for grade six through 12. students can work alone or in a group of up to three to produce a five-minute documentary on the issues selected. a grand prize will go to the tudent or team with the best overall entry will be $5,000. prizes. in cash for more information about the competition go to our website, studentcam.orling. -- studentcam.org. >> tomorrow michigan is experted to certify the votes showing that donald trump won the state by about 10,000 votes. jill stinal can request a recount there. she has raised $5 million to cover the cost of recount. and filed a recount request in wisconsin, friday. the deadline for a pennsylvania request is tomorrow. hillary clinton's lawyer has a

host: we are talking with anders fogh rasmussen. he is also the author of a new book, "the will to lead." we will be talking about nato for the last half hour and he will be taking your comments. phone numbers, democrats, (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001. .ndependents, (202) 748-8002 outside the united states, we would love to bring you into the conversation. (202) 748-8003. up first.ou are caller: good morning. i would like to make a statement on the guy before. of hearing trumpet be compared to hiller. cast by cast -- obama by -- obama bypassed all kinds of rules. host: i think it was a caller who made that can there is an but not our guest. but go ahead with your comment on nato. about the same opinion i have with united nations. the united states supplies most of the troops and almost all of the money and all we get is a big bill and a lot of problems. let everyone in their pay the do andount as what we put is the same number as troops is what we do and let them that, themselves like instead of the united states havin

wanda coming you are on with anders fogh rasmussen. >> i just want to say, how good is nato when nato can't even protect europe? it lost its will to exist. they have not even acknowledged the fact that there is an innovation happening all over europe right now that is going to islamicize the entire continent. so, what good is nato anyhow? >> yeah, i do believe that nato is and will remain the bedrock uro-atlantic security, in in europ europe and in the u.s. this is why many european countries have already joined nato i. in 2004, the massively enlarged nato because they know ,the european countries know that they are better defended within nato than outside nato. so, i don't think it is that europetate has lost its will to exist. on the contrary, you still have countries in europe cueing up to become members of nato. if you ask ukrainians and georgians, the people living in ukraine and georgia, they would very much like to join nato. they cannot at the moment, but maybe once in the future. so, i think, the fact that we have enlarged nato, the fact that a lot of countries are killing up